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Gas Buddy is a great site.

Not if it's on the highway without traffic. Most of the time I'm going out that way too though.

Yep that's a new trend, I'm discovering. Gas Stations outside of the GTA are a lot lower, like up to $10 cents lower. It's almost like they are preparing people to shop there when and if Wynne actually decides to make the GTA pay an additional gas tax to pay for transportation. I've almost ignored the Toronto Gas Prices Today announcements because I know if I take a 20 minute or so drive I'll find a station that's selling gas a lot cheaper.

Gas Prices have actually stayed rather steady for the last 5 years. Occasional Spikes due to hurricanes are Mideast concerns but, at least here in Ontario, it's stayed between $1.15-$1.35. I think once it gets above $1.35 people really start to scale back their usage and the economy suffers. In Montreal and Vancouver taxes are the main culprit for the huge prices.

More than Tobacco smoke? I like to smoke the odd cigar and I don't feel social acceptance walking into a park puffing a cigar. Should they legalize pot tomorrow, I don't think many would suddenly start smoking weed on restaurant patios. It's nice of you to admit that there addictive qualities in pot though. It's like anything that feels good, if you do it every day, you'll want to continue doing it every day.

Do you think that when/if MJ ever becomes legals, will people consume it at similar regularity as they currently consume alcohol and tobacco? If it's true that pot has no addictive qualities like, say, nicotine the reliable revenue won't be the same. People will consume pot like they consume alcohol. I think it'll take awhile before consuming pot like they consume alcohol. If governments treat pot like tobacco, I'd imagine many will still choose the contraband route like they do with tobacco. Reverses, i'd imagine, would be happy to grow cannabis along with their tobacco opperation.

Well that's not really the issue, thanks for the info though. No different than how Bell and Rogers works here in Canada. But people here bitch about choice and competition. Truth is, you can get low cost cell coverage very easily in Canada but the network is Kaka, which is why people stick with the Big 3. Another issue is the cycle of contracts where, when you need a new phone, if you don't want to pay the full freight, you have to sign up for another contract. Now apparently the CRTC wants to cap contracts at 2 years. This will likely raise the price of getting a phone from your carrier. That being said these phones aren't really meant to last for more than 2 years unless you don't care about having good tech and just need a device to make calls.

It's back! Sunday's episode was terrific. I'm really surprised they had the Hank and Walt confrontation in the first episode. I predict Hank really isn't Walt's main concern. He's enriched so many and now kicked them to the curb they'll be out for blood. Lydia showing up at the car wash is the pre-cursor to this. The brilliance of this show can be exhibited by the tension of once Hank closed to the garage door combined with the humour of Badger and Skinny Pete talking Star Trek. Also the intrigue of the cold opening making us all perplexed as how it comes to the point where Walt's home is abandoned and his pool is a skate park. This show has it all.

And these things weren't readily apparent when he was elected?I'm very skeptical that people want him to get help for his well being, they want him to get help because then he won't be an acting mayor and they can use that against him if he runs again.

This was a fail on the part of the snake owner on multiple levels. First of all the snake was to large to be owned in a private residence. The fact he had it in a private residence that was near other occupants was also idiotic behaviour. And the final example of fail was not securing the snake. It escaped somehow, apparently more than once. If he isn't charged with negligent homicide, I'd be shocked.

Apparently the criticism of him here is less that he got sloshed and more that he didn't let his handlers handle him. Same with the prison thing. Did he expect to be allowed into a prison after hours just cuz he's the mayor?

cite? Perhaps but if a ruling comes out saying that says shooting someone 9 times when he's alone on a bus is cool, I'd reckon public outrage will grow again. Sure as long as you eat crow if he's charged.

Look at Target's pricing strategy.

And of course you can predict this will happen because. . . ? In once sentence you say that the public will be satisfied by an inquiry but then say that you think nothing will come of it because the police were right. How will that achieve any satisfaction? A ruling on if the officer will be charged or not is expected by the end of the month, far earlier than any investigation from this judge.

I never said it was, but even if said officer was completely in the right, policy wise, in shooting Yatim, his shooting has caused sufficient outrage that the police force seems to be looking to change their policies. Ultimately the public is the boss of the police, not the other way around. Perhaps, but those are the two other inquiries the judge in question has presided over. So, I'd argue, this inquiry is a big deal for the Police Force and how they conduct their business.

You think the Chief would call an inquiry and say and I quote him "We are prepared to make changes" to get out in front of a "non-issue"?Were Walkerton and the Maher Arar inquiries also non-issues?

Police Chief Blair, today, has announced an inquiry into a Police's Use of Force. Clearly this is in response to the Yatim shooting. Though the Yatim shooting is being looked at separately by the SIU, this inquiry lead, not by a police expert but a judge (same guy who did the Walkerton inquiry) into policies the police use regarding use of force.

This was ignored by everyone on this site it appears but Sun News was denied mandatory carriage. I'm shocked how much mandatory carriage CNN gets. But I guess the CRTC admits allowing some "All News Channels" to be higher in the listings and grouping Sun News in with fringe specialty cable channels that don't even offer any CanCon. Seems like everyone gets something to make them happy in this ruling.

Yeah because polls have been soooooo accurate lately. Out of all the things Ford has been accused of doing, getting hammered in public is probably one of the more benign things.

Less the 9 shots than the 5 second break between bursts.When he was in the doorway I'd entertainment arguments he was a threat. After the first 3 shots, all evidence I've seen shows he was no longer an immediate threat.

BTW the family has said Yatim had no history of mental illness.

TL;DR ;-DThis thread takes a dog chasing its tail to new heights. People who are arguing that the 9 shots were warranted are in the vast minority here but they'll continue to come up with hypothetical scenarios where it would have been regardless of evidence suggesting otherwise. Perhaps the AG can get to the bottom of this if police can quit trolling him.

Fusion is great. I always ask for more razors at Christmas time.

Very mature. http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/08/ontario-ombudsman-outs-twitter-troll-attacking-him-over-sammy-yatim-shooting-as-durham-police-detective/ No the think blue line doesn't exist at all.